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Great white sharks in the Eastern Atlantic

  • 07-03-2014 10:00am
    #1
    snowstreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26467037

    After hearing about this new discovery, it looks like Great White sharks might well be visitors to Irish & British waters. It will be interesting to see where she heads next.

    Also has there ever been any genetic studies done to see how closely related the Western Atlantic great white sharks are to the Eastern Atlantic ones?
    I have read that the Mediterranean Great whites are cousins of the South African ones. But maybe they also share genetics with the American ones?
    What do you guys here think?
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  • #2
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    They said that years ago and then someone showed a pic they took of a great white in Aran Islands but turns out it was actually taken in S.A


  • #3
    snowstreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    www.facebook.com/OCEARCH

    Here is the facebook page about tracking the shark. It seems she might have headed south?

    The map is here:
    http://www.ocearch.org/


  • #4
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    I fished out of kinsale in 1984 for blue sharks which we weighed,tagged and released.

    At least one of them showed up in Newfoundland ten years later!


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